L. Tom Perry

“Independence and self-reliance are critical to our spiritual and temporal growth. Whenever we get into situations which threaten our self-reliance, we will find our freedoms threatened as well. If we increase our dependence on anything or anyone except the Lord, we will find an immediate decrease in our freedom to act…”

“…We recognize that when God the Eternal Father presented His plan to us at the beginning of time, Satan wanted to alter the plan… But there was an unacceptable cost—the destruction of man’s agency, which was and is a gift given by God.”